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Cargill

Founders William Wallace Cargill

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Total investments 41
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$52M
Portfolio companies 27
Rounds per year 0.26
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 1
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Agriculture
  • Farming
  • Food and Beverage
  • Software
  • Biotechnology
Summary

Cargill appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1865. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Minneapolis. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2000. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of more than 20 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Puris, GoCargo.com, ePropose We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Trading Platform, Internet.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Cargill, startups are often financed by Pangaea Ventures, Walden Riverwood Ventures, AquaSpark. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Walden Riverwood Ventures, Pangaea Ventures, Municipal Employee Retirement System. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Walden Riverwood Ventures, Temasek Holdings, Pangaea Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

3fbio

3D Technology
Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Information Services
Information Technology
15 Feb 2024 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

AMSilk

Biotechnology
$29M04 Apr 2023 Germany, Bavaria, Germany

Qaptis

Renewable Energy
$1M01 Mar 2023 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

ProfilePrint

Artificial Intelligence
Food and Beverage
$600K11 Aug 2022 Singapore, Central, Singapore

ZeroNorth

CleanTech
Software
$58M02 Jun 2022 Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Regrow Ag

Agriculture
Analytics
Farming
Machine Learning
$38M24 May 2022 New Hampshire, United States

Grão Direto

Agriculture
AgTech
Farming
Software
Trading Platform
$7M03 Mar 2022 Brazil, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Wild Type

AgTech
Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
$100M23 Feb 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Regrow Ag

Agriculture
Analytics
Farming
Machine Learning
$17M17 Aug 2021 New Hampshire, United States
News
AnimalBiome Raises $8.6M in Series A Funding

– AnimalBiome from Oakland develops a science-powered animal health company.
– Series A funding $8.6m round was led by Cargill and attracted new investor – SOSV (IndieBio) along with Moai Capital, Digitalis Ventures, Michelson Found Animal Foundation, and R/GA Ventures.
– The company plans to use the funds to accelerate growth and create new microbial cocktails for companion animals.

Aleph Farms Raises $105M in Series B Funding

– Aleph Farms from Rehovot, Israel develops a non-genetically engineered cells isolated from a living cow to grow beef steaks.
– The company raised $105m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Growth Fund and DistruptAD, with participation from Skyviews life Science, Thai Union, BRF, CJ CheilJedang, VisVires New Protein, Strauss Group, Cargill, Peregrine Ventures, and CPT Capital.
– The new investment will be used to scale up manufacturing and grow operations internationally ahead of initial market launch in 2022.

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Total investments 41
Average round size 52M
Rounds per year 0.26
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.68

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

3fbio

3D Technology
Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Information Services
Information Technology
15 Feb 2024 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

AMSilk

Biotechnology
$29M04 Apr 2023 Germany, Bavaria, Germany

Qaptis

Renewable Energy
$1M01 Mar 2023 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

ProfilePrint

Artificial Intelligence
Food and Beverage
$600K11 Aug 2022 Singapore, Central, Singapore

ZeroNorth

CleanTech
Software
$58M02 Jun 2022 Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Regrow Ag

Agriculture
Analytics
Farming
Machine Learning
$38M24 May 2022 New Hampshire, United States

Grão Direto

Agriculture
AgTech
Farming
Software
Trading Platform
$7M03 Mar 2022 Brazil, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Wild Type

AgTech
Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
$100M23 Feb 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Regrow Ag

Agriculture
Analytics
Farming
Machine Learning
$17M17 Aug 2021 New Hampshire, United States
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